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Academic Skills Workshops

Academic Skills and Success Workshops focus on building skills necessary to succeed in college. Although not always tied to a specific class, the skills you learn with us will help you in a variety of courses throughout your academic career. Topics include proofreading, close reading to develop a thesis, as well as English language support.

Spring Sessions

Now What?Writing Series

These linked workshops will help you generate ideas, approach your writing process in new ways, and engage in more effective research strategies to improve your writing assignments, regardless of topic or length.

"I Have Some Sources, Now What?": Tips for Writing a More Insightful and Comprehensive Research Paper

This writing workshop will discuss tips to help you research efficiently and effectively. Students will leave the workshop knowing how to find more sources for a research paper, as well as some tips for how to best incorporate those sources, and how to approach writing longer assignments.

Reading Across Disciplines

This workshop will introduce you to strategies to help you read efficiently and effectively across disciplines, which can often be difficult when the textbooks and reading assignments you have seem overwhelming. Whether you are taking courses in the sciences, humanities, or a combination of the two, this workshop can help you prioritize assigned reading in terms of importance, as well as help you strategize when you choose what content to focus on.

Presentation Skills

This workshop will provide you with tips and tricks to help create in-class presentations and deliver them with confidence to your peers and instructors. At the end of this workshop, participants will have a chance to plan, prepare, and practice a brief presentation of their own. No advance preparation is required.

Thursday, 4/23 from 6-7pm in Large UHall Study Room

From Bluebook to Multiple Choice: Test-taking Tips and Strategies

This workshop will provide you with strategies to help better manage time and develop strategies to take your exams more effectively. Multiple choice exams, short answer exams, and essay (aka “Bluebook”) exam strategies will all be discussed.

Express Yourself! Conversation Circles

Increase your fluency in another language! These sessions supplement your foreign language studies and are designed to help you gain confidence speaking in the language you are studying. Sign up each week to attend! Sessions begin the week of February 9.

Seats are limited so please be considerate and only sign up if you intend to come.

UHall: University Hall, 110 East 14th Street, in ULC study rooms at the top of the stairs by UHall Commons

Visit the ULC for the Peer Academic Coaches walk-in hours for one-to-one help as well!

Peer Academic Coaches

In addition to subject-matter tutoring, the ULC's Peer Academic Coaches can help you improve your learning skills and techniques. Whether you need assistance managing your time and putting together an appropriate study plan, or would like some tips and advice on note-making or efficient reading, our Coaches are here to help you. Like all of our Learning Assistants, the Coaches are your peers, and want to pass along the tips they wish they'd had before! Come to our Academic Skills Workshops to learn how to become a better student, or visit them one-on-one for specific advice.